Note: Refers to youth aged 12 to 17 who were either charged (or recommended for charging) by police or diverted from the formal criminal justice system through the use of warnings, cautions, referrals to community programs, etc. Data on the provincial and territorial youth Crime Severity Indexes are available from 1998. The base index was set at 100 for 2006 for Canada.Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.